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Click to view larger Solar cookers such as this may reduce dependence on fossil fuels. Image courtesy of wikimedia.org Experts address smoking among the homeless A panel of policy experts, agencies serving the homeless and homeless individuals gathered in ...

Click to view larger As a 27-year-career CIA analyst, Ray McGovern used to have the ear of the White House. Now, he's trying to get the ear of everday people, to tell them how the Bush White House played a role in torture. Perhaps you've heard t ...

While Washington state helped to make history by voting for Barack Obama last year, all of its residents owe a debt to another dark-skinned man whose name lays buried deep in the annals of the past: George W. Bush. That wouldn't be George Walker Bush ...

Click to view larger Trevor Griffey launched the Olympia Newswire to refocus the public's attention on the state capitol. Maybe if he hadn't witnessed the impact of the ever-increasing cost of secondary education with his own eyes, Trevor Griffe ...

Click to view all images Jesse Hagopian and his family were in Haiti on Jan. 12, when a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck. While he and his family were uninjured, the rear end of the hotel where he was staying collapsed. Photo courtesy Jesse Hagopian A chil ...

Click to view larger Several times a month, Tom Dean drives south from Bellevue toward the northwestern face of Mt. Rainier, until he reaches the small town of Buckley, with a population just shy of 4,500. He travels there to see his son, Patrick, who liv ...

Ten thousand dollars: That's how much the Homeless Remembrance Project had to raise by Jan. 15 to receive a matching grant, with the combined funds directed toward the construction of a memorial for homeless people who have died in the region. Victor ...

In the early morning hours of Jan. 29, the One Night Count found 5 percent fewer homeless people in King County than the year before (2,675 people for year 2010, as opposed to 2,827 for year 2009). Of this year's current total, only 17 people under 1 ...

Click to view larger Not ready for the barrier: Aurora Bridge's sidewalk. Residents who had anticipated construction of a barrier on the Aurora Bridge would begin in late March, one that might deter people from jumping from the historic structure, wi ...

Slashed tires, a plugged exhaust pipe, damaged car locks, broken windows and graffiti calling for a race war: all this has been used to target the local community group, Washington CAN! CAN! staff members, along with people from other local organizations, ...